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This week's book is Man's Search for Himself. It is a longer article filled with ideas on becoming more self-aware. The book mentions the fact that back in the day conformity was the main trend unlike nowadays when everyone is fighting to prove how creative and unique they are. As pages went by I came across some interesting psychological observations among which man was lost when freedom was taken away from him and without high self-esteem man could not have courage. It made me think of my own life and realized that people around me have manipulated me for years just for the fun of it. And of course I felt like a fool when all of a sudden I became more self-aware of the damage that has been done to me. A really helpful read, unlike anything I've come across before, gave me a hint of the "good old days" and how people viewed psychology and psychoanalysis back then.